NEW YORK — The New York Mets scored double-digit runs in three straight video games for the primary time of their 63-season historical past once they beat the Philadelphia Phillies 10-6 on Thursday night time.
Coming off 10-1 and 10-0 routs of Washington, the Mets obtained house runs from Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo and Francisco Alvarez off Philadelphia starter Taijuan Walker.
Luisangel Acuña, a brother of Atlanta star Ronald Acuña Jr., drove within the tenth run with an RBI triple within the seventh off José Alvarado.
It was the 9,963rd regular-season sport within the 63-season historical past of the Mets, in keeping with the Elias Sports activities Bureau.
“Sick,” Alonso mentioned.
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“It is fairly wonderful that the Mets have performed over 10,000 video games and we are the first ones to do that,” Nimmo mentioned, rounding up. “That is fairly particular.”
New York received its fourth straight sport and for the sixteenth time in its previous 20, sustaining a two-game lead over Atlanta for the NL’s closing wild-card place.
The Mets did the majority of their harm off Walker (3-7), who made his first begin since Aug. 28 after being relegated to 3 bullpen appearances. He gave up a career-worst 4 homers together with 8 runs, 8 hits, 3 walks and successful batter in 3â…“ innings. His ERA rose to six.91 in an outing that included his 1,000th strikeout.
Philadelphia pitchers walked a season-high eight.
Vientos put the Mets forward together with his twenty fifth homer, a 113.2 mph line drive down the left-field line. 4 pitches later, Alonso hit an opposite-field drive to right-center for his thirty fourth homer, giving the Mets back-to-back lengthy balls for the sixth time this season.
Six pitches into the underside half of the third, Nimmo put the Mets forward together with his twenty first homer, a two-run drive to right-center. After Brandon Marsh’s RBI single closed the Phillies’ deficit to 4-3 within the fourth, Alvarez hit his third homer in six begins, a three-run drive in a five-run fourth that boosted the Mets’ result in 7-3.
“We have had that belief and perception in one another all yr and I believe now it is simply coming into fruition, coming to gentle a bit bit extra,” Alonso mentioned.
Mets house attendance, down by about 300,000 from final yr, was damage by the summer season 2023 departures of Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander and this season’s sluggish begin.
“When Citi’s a vibe and a enjoyable place to play, we completely feed off that,” Alonso mentioned.
After Wednesday’s win, Nimmo implored folks to fill Citi Discipline.
“Mets followers, we’d like you guys to fill this place up!” he shouted in an on-field interview heard all through the ballpark. “This place must be rocking on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday! We want your assist! We want everyone to get out right here! We want this place full! That is playoff baseball. That is what you guys need. Let’s go! Let’s go Mets!”
A crowd of 35,982 confirmed up, probably the most at Citi Discipline since a Subway Collection sport towards the Yankees in late June.
“It was nice power and a playoff-type ambiance. Very grateful for that,” Nimmo mentioned. “We want extra of it as we go down this stretch and into this weekend. We fed off of it.”
Simply three house video games stay earlier than a visit to Atlanta and Milwaukee that closes the common season.
“The extra constructive power and the extra folks which might be creating that hostile surroundings for the street group, I believe that simply helps us play higher,” Alonso mentioned. “It is infectious.”
Info from The Related Press was used on this report.